1Assistant Director of ICU at Naval and Veterans Hospital of Athens, Former Director of Intensive Care Unit (CS-ICU) of Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 2Consultant Cardiac Surgeon of Cardiac Surgery Department, Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 3Consultant Inte...

AT a large military hospital in England, between January and July, 1927, I examined five cases of paralysis of one or other of the recti muscles, of the eye following on the use of stovaine as a spinal anaesthetic. Although stovaine has been extensively used as a spinal anaesthetic in this hospital since 1915 there is no record of any case of paralysis of ocular muscles following its use, with ...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Alia Military Hospital, Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan (Correspondence to M.I. Al-Taani: [email protected]). ABSTRACT To assess the effectiveness of intravaginal misoprostol for second trimester uterine evacuation, we studied 70 women with singleton pregnancies complicated by fetal malformation or dead fetuses. Participants received 200 μ...

foundation for his subsequent scientific and philosophical studies. His school career ended at sixteen but the young man spent two more years with his uncle. His father had decided upon a business career for his son and had made arrangement for him to enter a large bank at Marseilles, but the national situation prevented the realization of any such hope for in 1794 France sent out a call to col...

To estimate the prevalence of psychological morbidity among health care workers in military hospitals in Taiwan and studies the association between psychological morbidity and quality of life. We sent surveys to 1,269 health care workers working in military hospitals. Participants completed structured questionnaires that included the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and the WHO Quality of Li...

BACKGROUND We present the results of a comparative prospective study of the resistance profile of strains isolated from pathological material of patients hospitalized in the burn unit of the military hospital in Rabat and from their environment over a period of one and a half years (July 2009-February 2011). METHODS The study concerned 125 pathological products from patients (40 men, 20 women...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Dermatology consultation occurs mainly in the outpatient setting. The reasons for inpatient dermatologic consultation by other specialties in a hospital, its frequency and its impact on health care are largely unrecorded. METHODS We retrospectively studied the records of 971 hospitalized patients or patients being evaluated in emergency services for which a dermatologist's...

based on thorough documentation and of continuing use in medical libraries is a list of early American journals conveniently grouped under state-names; amongst them is a title curiously unnoticed in Austin'sEarly American Medical Imprints, that of the first medical journal published in the United States about 1790, a translation from the French (Journal of the practice of medicine .. . in the m...

BACKGROUND The clinical learning environment is a complex social entity that influences student learning outcomes in the clinical setting. Students can experience the clinical learning environment as being both facilitative and obstructive to their learning. The clinical environment may be a source of stress, creating feelings of fear and anxiety which in turn affect the students' responses to ...

Probably the bulk of the more minor surgical vv0rk done in any military hospital consists treating septic diseases of the fingers, familiarity is apt to breed contempt, and the *act that a neglected whitlow may cause as jttuch economic disability to the patient as a fractured spine is not always fully realized. The Wastage of man-power is very considerable, and, as Denness (1944) puts it, a man...